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| | Students choose service over sun for spring break  More than 200 WUSTL students will be using their spring breaks not for lounging on the beach but for serving communities around the globe. Eighteen groups of students will travel to places as close as suburban St. Louis and as far away as Hanoi, Vietnam, to help with service projects ranging from home building and urban renewal to college mentorship and medical assistance.
Residents can effectively treat strokes, study says Residents with appropriate training can safely make the decision to administer stroke treatment in emergency cases, a new study shows. Grant helps WUSTL computer science faculty emphasize active learning Computer science faculty are exposing their undergraduate students to learning in ways that prepare them for interaction in the real work place. It's not about "staying between the lines," but more about getting out of your seat, moving around and interacting with your classmates. It's called active learning, a learning-laboratory-based tutorial teaching concept.
Kenyan group spreads its message 'step by step' The Performing Arts Department and the African & African American Studies Program, both in Arts & Sciences, will host a residency March 13-22 for a nine-member touring ensemble of the internationally known Kenyan performance group Haba na Haba. First-of-its-kind international conference to focus on the evolution of cooperation Numerous prominent researchers will gather at WUSTL March 12-14 to discuss the nature of human sociality. The conference, titled "Man the Hunted: The Origin and Nature of Human Sociality, Altruism and Well-Being," is the first of its kind to focus on the evolution of cooperation, altruism and sociality in primates and humans.
Music department presents opera The Washington University Opera, led by director Jolly Stewart, will present Dominick Argento's "The Aspern Papers" at 8 p.m. March 20 and 21. Workshop explores social science of international development Community-based conservation in Madagascar, property rights for the poor in Argentina and trade-offs between violence and power in societies throughout human history are among topics to be explored in a free public workshop on the social science of international development from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 24 in the Women's Building Formal Lounge. Photos of Record - click on the photo to view a larger version and full caption | |
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